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( Story rec: 'My Donald' )


Oh and speaking of stories with girls in them: yes, "Intake Counselor" was a teaser for a new SB-verse serial fic. I don't want to say too much about it just yet because I'm still not sure how long it's going to be, but I'm writing on it a lot lately, and figuring some stuff out. It's the first story I've written in this 'verse that I'd hesitate to call slavefic, although I've seen other fics that called themselves slavefic that had the same amount of slavery in them (that is, they started with the rescue and spent the story exploring the post-slavery fallout), so maybe it is, I don't know. But it Contains No Actual Slavery. I hope it's going to work out. I'm really enjoying writing it, more than I thought I would actually. And it's sort of nice to be writing primarily girls for a change; as my late lamented husband once commented on reading my work, "Well, this is a bit of a sausage-fest, isn't it?"

Plus, y'all missed Jesse, right?

I have been catching up on friends list (still not remotely caught up on my own comments, alas, but made a big dent in flist at least) and rocking out to this song (warning: may cause levels of headbanging and/or sock-hopping that are not entirely safe for work). I don't care what any music snobs say about the Killers and their continuing musical development and their odd religious beliefs and their feathery epaulets: I love them, with a love surpassing the love of women. CALL ME, BRANDON FLOWERS. I AM WEARING BUTTON BOOTS AND LONG UNDERWEAR.

*bops*

(though as my husband says, I must be human, as I am definitely no dancer)

In other news, this certainly explains a lot.

In other other news, that thing I said, about only one more chapter of Lee plus epilogue? That, uh, may not work. Oh, the perishing of a million noble outlines for this story.

(Although, those of you who have asked how I'll ever tie up all the loose ends-- hey, what kind of a girl do you think I am? When have I ever tied up loose ends at the end of a story? Remember the end of "Bran"? And the end of "Jesse"? You should see my knitting: loose ends EVERYWHERE.)

Actually, I recently found my very first outline for "Lee," being used as a bookmark in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Want to see it? It's adorable; it plans for fifteen chapters. (And contains spoilers for all posted chapters of Lee, up to and including 44a and 44b, but not for future chapters, although I guess you might not want to look too closely at what I consider vital information, if you're a big old spoilerphobe. Caveat lector, and all that.)


( The best-laid plans of mice and men )

And will catch up on everything and everyone, eventually. Pinky swear.

Hi to the bunch of new people who recently friended me, and thank you to whoever recced me to them!

And for the rest of you, who have been waiting so very patiently for the last-- oh, good lord, nearly a month-- for the new chapter of Lee: I'm terribly sorry. As many of you know, my personal life has been, um, interesting lately, and what should have been an extremely minor and temporary writer's block grew to elephantine proportions simply because I haven't had patience left over to sit down and work the damn thing out. Plus, last time I got the chance and inspiration to write, I wrote a bunch of what I thought was chapter thirty-six, which actually turned out to belong to chapter thirty-seven, so that was a setback. Thirty-six is finally coming along at a nice little clip, though, and I think it's going to be long.

For the record, I do currently have all of the following partially written:

• The next chapter of Crimson
  
  
• The next chapter of Babysitter of Themyscira (hah, you all hoped I'd forgotten about that one!)
  
  
• A Slave Breakers one-shot to be posted sometime in the next week
  
  
• The next two chapters of Lee

Anyway, I guess I should make a start on catching up on my awesome friendslist now. (It's such a burden, having so many enthralling WIPs to read. I don't know how I manage it.)